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Does precariousness form a social class identity?

Political Psychology
Political Sociology
Identity
Nathalie Fuchs
Sciences Po Paris
Nathalie Fuchs
Sciences Po Paris

Abstract

A few years after the Great Recession of 2007, we assume that the political preferences of precarious people, over-represented by women, immigrants or minorities and national citizens, at the same time are homogeneous (in majority they state a preference for the left parties and they are for redistribution), and heterogeneous to politics depending not only on the diversity of precarious employment, social characteristics (principally income and education), but also on the individual political socialization and on the social, ethnic identity. As some scholars said the relationship to politics of precarious people is not uniform because it depends as much on life trajectories as current living conditions themselves also varied which shaped social identity. Consequently, we cannot assert with Standing (2011) that the precarious people, united by their difficult living conditions, forms a social class identity or consolidates a class membership. This study is based on the exploitation of a hundred interviews collected in France and about fifty in the US (Oakland/ California).